Musée Pierre Merlier

Theatrical staging of more than 300 wooden sculptures. "Oak, linden, elm, cherry, exotic essence, the figures emerge ironic as the family of "bankers" among whom we note some women but also dreamlike, chimerical , like the orantes, women draped in veils . Each time , it is a question of respecting what the tree offers, playing with form, inventing it with derision and poetry. The stumps and their roots become heads, they rush towards the sky, while the body caught in the trunk of the tree seems to anchor delicately in the ground, long feet, as long as the hands are thin and the necks are elongated, heads resting there, faces in a game of truth "
Surprise and emotion assured, provoked by the quantity, the diversity, the themes addressed, the materials used, the staging of a unique and singular work. The buildings, the proximity of the Canal du Nivernais bordered by the towpath make this Museum a unique and attractive place.